Conversation Re: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean? in Microsoft Teamshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/330462#M25318
<P>It also doesn't seem to work if you click "Reply All with IM"; Teams gains focus from Outlook, but it doesn't initiate either a new chat window with both users, or connect to an existing chat/thread with the individuals on the email thread.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Perhaps more urgently; do we have any mechanism to prevent this (or, reenforce Skype as the handler for this, regardless of if the user checks the box)?</P>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:14:14 GMTKYLE SCHROEDER2019-02-05T15:14:14ZWhat does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285166#M20455
<P>Found this setting but can't find any related article in the help center either. Can someone shed some light on what it means?</P>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:44:31 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285166#M20455Tomas Sandkvist2018-11-12T05:44:31ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285169#M20457
Where before within the office application, you pressed a button to initiate a Skype chatt, Teams now starts.<BR />For example: you Hoover the the user in outlook and see the contact card. If you now press the messaging button , it will now start teams instead of s4b<BR /><BR />AdamMon, 12 Nov 2018 05:55:29 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285169#M20457adam deltinger2018-11-12T05:55:29ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285972#M20550
<P>All of my users are getting prompted for admin credentials because of this setting. Can this be set via GPO or another way so we don't have to log onto each users machine?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:40:01 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285972#M20550Luke Johnson2018-11-13T15:40:01ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285982#M20553
<P>Additional info in screenshot.</P>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:03:44 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/285982#M20553Luke Johnson2018-11-13T16:03:44ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/286840#M20667
<P>Do we know if this is rolled out for the MAC version of Teams?&nbsp; I have colleagues in my org on Macs reporting they don't see it.</P>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:10:33 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/286840#M20667Jason Ruthkoski2018-11-14T19:10:33ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/320389#M24059
<P>Luke did you ever find a solution for this?&nbsp; I'm running into the same issue and not finding anything on how this can be enabled administratively.&nbsp; I found some related registry keys but from my testing it seems to be a more complex interaction than&nbsp;just editing a key.&nbsp;</P>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:10:56 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/320389#M24059TommyP2019-01-17T20:10:56ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/325046#M24603
<P>So after enabling this feature in Teams, the message feature in Outlook opened a Skype for Business chat window rather than taking me to Teams. So I restarted Outlook and now the message icon is greyed out and non-functional. Anyone have any insight into this phenomenon?</P>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:56:57 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/325046#M24603jschmidt_wjhw2019-01-24T15:56:57ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/328282#M25054
<P>I have the same problem.&nbsp; I checked the box in Teams, then closed out of everything.&nbsp; Now when I go to Outlook I can't click the messaging icon.</P><P>We run S4B on prem so maybe that has something to do with it?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Update: Never mind.&nbsp; It started working a minute or two after I posted.&nbsp; I guess it just took a bit.</P>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:33:38 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/328282#M25054Mike Boehm2019-01-30T23:33:38ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/330462#M25318
<P>It also doesn't seem to work if you click "Reply All with IM"; Teams gains focus from Outlook, but it doesn't initiate either a new chat window with both users, or connect to an existing chat/thread with the individuals on the email thread.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Perhaps more urgently; do we have any mechanism to prevent this (or, reenforce Skype as the handler for this, regardless of if the user checks the box)?</P>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:14:14 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/330462#M25318KYLE SCHROEDER2019-02-05T15:14:14ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356788#M26836
<P>Is there a way to enable the feature via GPO?</P>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:47:29 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356788#M26836BENT172019-02-26T09:47:29ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356797#M26837
No, but they need to make this a global setting soon I hope<BR /><BR />AdamTue, 26 Feb 2019 09:57:02 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356797#M26837adam deltinger2019-02-26T09:57:02ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356802#M26838
<P>Well that blows!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there a registry key at least to enable the feature?</P>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:01:56 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356802#M26838BENT172019-02-26T10:01:56ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356804#M26839
The general idea is that your gonna set all users to Teams only mode, which also make teams the only app for chat!<BR /><BR />AdamTue, 26 Feb 2019 10:05:27 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356804#M26839adam deltinger2019-02-26T10:05:27ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356805#M26840
<P>Teams is our business app for chat&nbsp;</P>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:06:45 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356805#M26840BENT172019-02-26T10:06:45ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356806#M26841
<P>What co-existance mode do you have set for your users? islands?</P>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:08:06 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/356806#M26841adam deltinger2019-02-26T10:08:06ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/359129#M27180
<P>On a related note, we are running in Islands mode and we tested some "Teams Only" users this week. We ran into a documented limitation where you cannot initiate chat, calls, or meetings with any non-Teams users. Initiating any communication with these users results in an email to them suggesting that they install Teams. Since we are not ready to roll this out org wide we had to roll back those few users to Islands mode.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Hope this helps anyone else who is thinking of making this change.</P>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:48:58 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/359129#M27180jstntym_422019-03-01T18:48:58ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/359277#M27193
<P>Hi&nbsp;<LI-USER uid="293842"></LI-USER>&nbsp;,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If most of your users are not using Teams yet, I would recommend changing your organization-wide coexistence mode to "Skype for Business only". That way, if you move some users into Teams-Only mode, they can still communicate with your SfB-only users.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Note that if you do have some users who you want to be able to use both SfB and Teams, you will want to apply a per-user Coexistence Mode setting of "Islands" to those users.</P>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 01:04:13 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/359277#M27193Ryan Steele2019-03-02T01:04:13ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/394699#M29374
<P><LI-USER uid="153372"></LI-USER>&nbsp; did you got a solution to this problem. How can we have this setting enabled without having users to enter admin creds?</P>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:55:29 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/394699#M29374Sarab162019-04-04T14:55:29ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/752271#M34847
<P>I'm having the same issue here, even though I have already selected Teams as the application for IM and have restarted Windows.</P>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:24:14 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/752271#M34847CristianoCarvalho2019-07-12T13:24:14ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1167609#M45082
Guys, there a "feature request" for this<BR /><A href="https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37039672-allow-bulk-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app" target="_blank">https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37039672-allow-bulk-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app</A><BR /><BR />Please vote.<BR />We tried to edit the desktop-config.json as recomended this site<BR /><A href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/configuring_startup_settings_in_microsoft_teams_with_windows_powershell/" target="_blank">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/configuring_startup_settings_in_microsoft_teams_with_windows_powershell/</A> but it did not work. The app changes the key to the original value.Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:33:47 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1167609#M45082Gustavo Moura de Sousa2020-02-11T19:33:47ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1167624#M45084
Now I'm going to try this one<BR /><A href="https://www.lee-ford.co.uk/change-teams-to-the-default-im-app-by-using-a-script/" target="_blank">https://www.lee-ford.co.uk/change-teams-to-the-default-im-app-by-using-a-script/</A>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:50:05 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1167624#M45084Gustavo Moura de Sousa2020-02-11T19:50:05ZRe: What does the setting 'Register Teams as the chat app for Office' mean?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1321791#M54181
<P><LI-USER uid="284113"></LI-USER>&nbsp; can we do this as GPO what other option we can have to force this thing as registry?</P>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:14:43 GMThttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/what-does-the-setting-register-teams-as-the-chat-app-for-office/m-p/1321791#M54181DeeptiKhatuja2020-04-20T15:14:43Z